On the basic search screen, enter each search word or phrase in a separate box.
In the box immediately to the right of where you put in your search word, choose whether you want the search to be conducted on the full-text of the article, just the article titles or abstracts, or in the author field. Note that in some disciplines, journals which do not provide abstracts for articles are common (e.g., philosophy), so searching in just the abstracts will result in few 'hits'.
Author names can be entered in any order, e.g. 'Jane Smith' or 'Smith, Jane'.
Once you have entered your search terms, you will need to scroll to the bottom of the screen and select one or more journal topic areas.
Also, you can choose what type of documents you want in your search results, articles, reviews, opinion pieces, or 'other'.
JSTOR does not have the capability to do
truncation or wildcards. You can, however, search for the singular and
plurals of terms by using the plus sign at the end of a word, e.g.,
cat+ for cat or cats
sky+ for sky or skies
knife+ for knife or knives
